Key-guide for keyholes.



E. E. BROWN.

KEY GUlDE FOR KEYHOLES.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 28, 1916.

Patented Apr. 24, 1917.

ERNEST E. BROKEN 02'. ZLLIEOIS.

' KEY-GUIDE 313R Application filed September 2%, 1216. serial lto. 122,714.-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownflthat I, ERNEST E. BROWN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in Key-Guides for Key-- holes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved lrey guide for keyholes and has as its primary object to provide a device of this character which may be readily applied to a door or other object to be employed in connection with substantially any conventional type of look as now in common use for directing" the key into the keyhole of the lock.

The invention has as a further object to provide a devic of this character which may be formedas a unitary structure struck from a suitable piece of suitable sheet metal.

And the invention has as a still further object to provide a guide of the character above set forth which will be simple in construction and which may be readily mounted in position.

Other and incidental objects will appear as the description proceeds and in the drawings wherein I have illustrated the preferred embodiment of the invention and wherein similar reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several views,-

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing my improved guide in connection with a conventional type of lock escutcheon.

Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view on a slightly enlarged scale showing the device detached, and

Fig. 3 is a sectional view more particularly illustrating the manner in which the device is engaged with a door or other object for holding the guide in active posi tion.

In carrying out the invention, the device is formed with an elongated body bent longitudinally to provide inwardly sloping guide walls 11 at the junction of which is formed a key opening 12. Extending from the longitudinal edges of the body 10 are lateral and outwardly projecting wings 13 which slope transversely and inwardly to the guide walls 11. of the 1.0 and are bent to provide longitudinally oping guide walls 14 inclining inwardly toward the key opening 12 to correspond to the inclination of the guide walls l. liiOjECtlIlg laterally Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 24, lair.

from each extremity of the body 10 are a plurality of attaching prongs or attaching eldinents 15 which are preferably spaced apart and taper toward their free ends.

As previously intimated, the device is preferably formed as an. integral structure and may, as will now be clear, be struck from a suitable piece of suitable resilient sheet metal. The body 10 is of a length to extend transversely of the'escutcheon plate of a lock and in Figs, 1 and 3., I have shown such a plate at 16, this plate being provided with a keyhole 1Z.- The device is seated against the plate 16 with the hey opening 1.2 in the body 10 of the device arranged opposite'the keyhole 1'2 and with the prongs 15 abutting the side edges otthe plate to engage the door or other object to which the plate is secured, a door being conventionally shown at 18 in Fig. 3.,

It will thus be observed that the device may b easily and quickly mounted in position by simply forcing the prongs 15 intothe door and when so mounted. akey directed against the guide walls 11 of the de--- vice will be guided thereby toward the opening 12 in the body 10 into the keyhole 17. In like manner, the longitudinally and transversely sloping guide walls 14 Willalso act to direct the key toward the keyhole 17 so that-*1 kev may be easily and quickly insertedv within the keyhole without the trouble ordinarily experienced in this regar In this connection, it will be seen that my improved guide provides an exceedingly desirable device for assisting in the location of the keyhole in the night-time. Furthermore, the device is of such nature an: it may readily be employed in connection with substantially any conventional type of look as now in common use.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: a

1. A device of the character described formed from a single piece of material and including an elongated body provided intermediate its ends with a key opening with the inner face of the body forming guide walls sloping from the ends of the body imvardly toward the said opening, there being laterally and outwardly directed guide wings formed on the longitudinal edges of the body with the said wings sloping transversely toward the body .id. slop ing longitudinally toward the said opening with the extremities of the body provided directed etteohing members carriedby the 10 with laterally directed attaching members. extremltles of the body, the body bemg dis- 2. A. key guide of the character described posed to embrace an eseutoheon plate with v including an elongated body provided centhe attaching members abutting opposite trelly with an opening and formed With edges of theplate and with theopemng 1n guide Walls sloping from the extremities of the body registering with the keyhole open 15 the body toward the said openin uide ing in the plate.

Wings carried by the body and flenliing op- In testimony whereof I eflix my signature. posite sides of the opening, and laterally ERNEST E. BROWN. [L- s.] 

